January 12, 2026 – Complete the Vocabulary – Employability Skills in Graphic Design and Final Assessment – Employability Skills in Graphic Design.

January 13, 2026 – Begin Preparing for a Graphic Design Career: Education & Training. Review Vocabulary Handout. Review slides 1 to 17 of the Preparing for a Graphic Design Career: Education & Training PowerPoint presentation. Complete Activity – My Future is Up to Me.

January 14, 2026 – Review slides 18 to 29 of the Preparing for a Graphic Design Career: Education & Training PowerPoint presentation. Complete Key Concepts – Preparation for a Graphic Design Career: Education & Training.

January 15, 2026 – Watch the ETSU Virtual Tour and complete Vocabulary – Preparing for a Graphic Design Career: Education & Training.

January 16, 2026 – Complete the Final Assessment – Preparing for a Graphic Design Career: Education & Training.

January 12 – 16, 2026

January 12, 2026 – Review Chapter 8 Quizlet. Complete Payroll System Discussion and Chapter 8 Payroll Study Guide. Test Tomorrow.

January 13, 2026 – Chapter 8 Test in TCAT Software

January 14, 2026 – Begin Chapter 9 Payroll Accounting: Employer Taxes and Reports. Review Section 9.1 Describe and Calculate Employer Payroll Taxes (slides 1-10). Read Section 9.1 in online textbook. Complete Section 9.1 Questions and Payroll – What is Ethical?

January 15, 2026 – Review Section 9.2 Account for Employer Payroll Taxes Expenses (slides 11-16). Read Section 9.2 in online textbook. Complete Section 9.2 Questions. Complete Exercise 9-1A Calculation and Journal Entry for Employer Payroll Taxes (self-check solution) and Exercise 9-2A Calculation and Journal Entry for Employer Payroll Taxes (self-check solution).

January 16, 2026 – Review Section 9.3 Describe Employer Reporting and Payment Responsibilities (slides 17-36). Read Section 9.3 in online textbook. Complete Section 9.3 Questions. Complete Exercise 9-3A Calculation of Earnings, Employer Taxes and Journal Entry (self-check solution) and Payroll – What is the Difference?

January 19, 2026 – Review Section 9.4 Describe and Account for Worker’s Compensation Insurance (slides 37-41). Read Section 9.4 in online textbook. Complete Section 9.4 Questions. Complete Exercise 9-4A Total Cost of Employee (self-check solution). Complete Budgeting for Fringe Benefits.

January 20, 2026 – Complete Math Worksheet on Employer Taxes.

January 12 – 16, 2026

January 12, 2026 – Watch Chapter 4 Creativity, Innovation, and Invention [27:38 – 38:46]. Review Chapter 4 Quizlet. Read Section 4.3 Developing Ideas, Innovations, and Inventions on pages 167 – 177. Complete Section 4.3 Developing Ideas, Innovations and Inventions Questions. Complete Chapter 4 Term Matching. Test tomorrow.

January 13, 2026 – Chapter 4 Test.

January 14, 2026 – Begin GMetrix’s Entrepreneurship and Small Business Certification. Watch Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ESB) Certification Overview and read How to Study for This Exam. Complete ESB Pretest.

January 15, 2026 – Review D1L1 Understanding Business Structures and Concepts presentation. In GMetrix, watch the videos for Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Classify Types of Business, Business Legal Structures, and Business Roles and Responsibilities (14 min). OR watch Introduction to Entrepreneurship (15:22). Complete Domain 1 Lesson 1 Questions A.

January 16, 2026 – Review Lesson 1 portion of Domain 1 Presentation. Watch the videos for Business Compensation Structures, Business Life Cycle Stages and Design Thinking Process (11 min). Or watch The Design Thinking Process and Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset. Complete Domain 1 Lesson 1 Questions B. [REF 02242025]

January 12 – 16, 2026

January 12, 2026 – Review slides 92 to 109 of the Advertising Plan segment and Potato Advertising. Pass out Questions to complete during video. Watch TED Talk – Malcolm Gladwell – Choice, Happiness, and Spaghetti Sauce [18:15]. Complete Student Notes – Advertising for Business – Advertising Plans and Assessment IV. Optional: complete Cereal Advertisement Analysis. 

January 13, 2026 – Have Word of Day displayed while students are entering the room. Today’s word is generation Y. Explain that many companies are specifically targeting generation Y as a customer group since they are typically large spenders. Open Satisfying the Market PowerPoint. Show the first video, Bleach Commercial. Ask the students: Who is the target customer for this commercial and product? and What is an example of a television show where this commercial might appear? Show second commercial, Modern Warfare. Ask the same questions. Pass out Who is Your Customer to groups. Complete in five minutes and discuss. Complete PowerPoint. Watch New Smartphone Product Testing. Pass out Be a Market Researcher activity.

January 14, 2026 – Have the Word of the Day displayed while students are entering the room. Today’s word is “Displays.” Explain that specific retail stores use displays both in store and in the window to showcase merchandise. Show the “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” video clip. Discussion: Why does she look into each window of Tiffany’s? (She is dreaming of shopping at the expensive Tiffany store.) AND What is the significance of a store window? (First view into store, quick glimpse into merchandise and concept of store.)
Break students into groups. Provide each group with a copy of the Window Display Brainstorm Sheet. There are 6 different sheets, make sure each group receives a different one. After 10 minutes, discuss. Review Window Displays (ppt). Show History of Window Displays, and Behind the Scenes of Creating a Display. Pass out Window Display Project Instructions and Visual Merchandising Display Design Handout. Review Window Display Example PowerPoint. Explain the project in detail, telling students they can have up to 4 people in their group. 

January 15, 2026 – Work on Window Display Project

January 16, 2026 – Work on Window Display Project

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January 5, 2026 – Teacher In-service

January 6, 2026 – Begin Employability Skills in Graphic Design. Review the Vocabulary Handout and slides 1 to 18 of the General Workplace Behaviors & Skills PowerPoint segment. Begin the My Job Flyer Project.

January 7, 2026 – Review slides 19 to 32 of the General Workplace Behaviors & Skills PowerPoint segment. Complete the Key Concepts I – General Workplace Behaviors & Skills and Assessment I – General Workplace Behaviors and Skills. Continue working on Flyer.

January 8, 2026 – Review the Professional & Personal Requirements PowerPoint segment (slides 33 – 54). Complete the Key Concepts II – Professional & Personal Requirements and Assessment II – Professional and Personal Requirements. Complete Flyer and submit in Teams.

January 9, 2026 – Review the Additional Skills PowerPoint segment (slides 55 – 61). Complete the Key Concepts III – Additional Skills and Assessment III – Additional Skills.

January 12, 2026 – Complete the Vocabulary – Employability Skills in Graphic Design and Final Assessment – Employability Skills in Graphic Design.

January 5 – 9, 2026

January 5, 2026 – Teacher In-service.

January 6, 2026 – Review Section 8-4 Account for Employee Earnings and Deductions & Section 8-5 Describe Various Payroll Keeping Methods (slides 37-46). Read Sections 8-4 & 8-5 in textbook. Complete Chapter 8 Lessons 4 & 5 Questions (link), Paychecks Math (handout) and A Payroll Dilemma (link).

January 7, 2026 – Complete Exercise 8-3A Computing Federal Income Tax (handout), Reading a Pay Stub Worksheet (handout) and Payroll Error Policy Discussion (link).

January 8, 2026 – Complete Exercise 8-4A Calculating Social Security and Medicare Taxes (link), Exercise 8-5A Computing Net Pay (handout) and Payroll Taxes Discussion (link).

January 9, 2026 – Complete handouts Exercise 8-6A Journalizing Payroll Transactions (self-check solution), Exercise 8-7A Payroll Journal Entry (self-check solution), and Problem 8-8A Gross Pay, Deductions, and Net Pay (self-check solution for Part 1 and Part 2).

January 5 – 9, 2026

January 5, 2026 – No School

January 6, 2026 – Review Legislative Acts Affecting Business Ethics  PowerPoint segment. Complete the Student Notes – Business Ethics – Legislative Acts Affecting Business Ethics and Check for Understanding 4 – Legislative Acts Affecting Business Ethics in iCEV. Complete Ethical Dilemma – The Honest Company.

January 7, 2026 – Complete Vocabulary – Business Ethics and Final Assessment – Business Ethics in iCEV.. Attempt to join Stukent Business U website – https://app.cte.stukent.com/auth/login.Try student email and school password first. If it works, save address of website on your desktop (minimize screen and drag icon, found next to website address, to your desktop). If it asks for a class code – T45ZN.

January 8, 2026 – Begin Business Law Basics. Pass out the Business Law Basics Vocabulary Handout. Show slides 1 to 16 of the Business Law Basics – Introduction to the Business Law segment. Complete the Legal Procedure Activity in “Interactive Activities” section. Complete Business Law Word Search.

January 9, 2026 – Review slides 17 to 21 of the Business Law Basics – Introduction to the Business Law segment. Complete the Student Notes – Business Law – Introduction to Business Law and Business Law Basics – Assessment I.

January 5 – 9, 2026

January 5, 2026 – Teacher In-service.

January 6, 2026 – Watch the TEDx talk “How to Know Your Life Purpose in Five Minutes” about the self and identifying values [10:33]. Review Chapter 3 Quizlet. Study Chapter 3 Terms. Complete Chapter 3 Entrepreneur Ethics Crossword with vocabulary terms. Test tomorrow!

January 7, 2026 – Chapter 3 Entrepreneur Ethics Test. Read 33 Most Profitable Christmas Business Ideas to Start Now.

January 8, 2026 – Begin Chapter 4 Creativity, Innovation, and Invention. Watch Chapter 4 Creativity, Innovation, and Invention [0:00 – 18:12]. Speaker is Prof. Jonathan Keisler of North Greenville University, SC. Read Section 4.1 Tools for Creativity and Innovation on pages 149 – 155. Complete Section 4.1 Tools for Creativity and Innovation Questions (link) and Recognizing Opportunities Discussion (link).

January 9, 2026 – Watch Chapter 4 Creativity, Innovation, and Invention [18:13 – 27:38]. Read Section 4.2 Creativity, Innovation, and Invention: How They Differ on pages 155 – 167. Complete Section 4.2 Creativity, Innovation, and Invention: How They Differ Questions (link). Complete Razors (link).

January 12, 2026 – Watch Chapter 4 Creativity, Innovation, and Invention [27:38 – 38:46]. Review Chapter 4 Quizlet. Read Section 4.3 Developing Ideas, Innovations, and Inventions on pages 167 – 177. Complete Section 4.3 Developing Ideas, Innovations and Inventions Questions. Complete Chapter 4 Term Matching. Test tomorrow.

January 13, 2026 – Chapter 4 Test.

January 14, 2026 – Begin GMetrix’s Entrepreneurship and Small Business Certification. Watch Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ESB) Certification Overview and How to Study for This Exam at GMetrix. Complete the Domain 1: Entrepreneurial and Small Business Concepts Pre-Assessment.

January 15, 2026 – Review D1L1 Understanding Business Structures and Concepts presentation. In GMetrix, watch the videos for Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Classify Types of Business, Business Legal Structures, and Business Roles and Responsibilities (14 min). Complete Domain 1 Lesson 1 Questions A.

January 16, 2026 – Watch the videos for Business Compensation Structures, Business Life Cycle Stages and Design Thinking Process (11 min). Complete Domain 1 Lesson 1 Questions B. [REF 02242025]

January 5 – 9, 2026

January 5, 2026 – Teacher in-service. No students.

January 6. 2026 – Complete Building Your Listening Skills pages 19-23.

January 7, 2026 – Review slides 41 to 57 of the Advertising Media segment in iCEV. Complete the Advertising for Business Vocabulary Activity in iCEV. Review Advertising Vocabulary. Complete Advertising Worksheet. Optional – complete Elements of Advertising.

January 8, 2026 – Watch Promotion – Advertising Media. Continue using the Vocabulary Handout as reference materials. Review slides 58 to 77 of the Advertising Media segment. Complete Student Notes – Advertising for Business – Advertising Media and Assessment III. Complete Understand the Advertisement.

January 9, 2026 – Students should continue using the Vocabulary Handout as reference material. Read Common Advertising Strategies Handout. Review slides 78 to 91 of the Advertising Plan segment. Watch Top Ten Commercials. Complete Commercials’ Target Market. Students should begin the Target Market Activity. [REF01132025]

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December 8 – 12, 2025

December 8, 2025 – Tell Me Your Brand Christmas Tree Project. See Door Example.

December 9, 2025 – Begin Chapter 8 Payroll Accounting: Employee Earnings and Deductions. Review Section 8-1 Employees and Independent Contractors and Section 2 Employee Earnings and Deductions PowerPoint (slides 1-26). Read Section 8-1 and 8-2 in textbook. Complete Chapter 8 Sections 1 & 2 Questions.

December 10, 2025 – Pass out and review Payroll Packet Reading. Review Section 8-3 Payroll Records PowerPoint (slides 27-36). Read Section 8-3 in online textbook. Complete Chapter 8 Sections 3 Questions and Examining the Pay Stub.

December 11, 2025 – Review Your Paycheck PowerPoint. Complete Angela’s Pay Stub and Payroll Terms Crossword.

December 12, 2025 – Parade AM, Pep Rally PM, Student Make-up Day

December 15, 2025 – Complete Paychecks Math and A Payroll Dilemma.

December 16, 2025 – Complete Reading a Pay Stub Worksheet and Payroll Error Policy Discussion

December 17, 2025 – Mid Term Exam. Exams Periods 2nd, 4th & 6th.

December 18, 2025 – Give 1^st, 3^rd, 5^th, and 7^th.

December 19, 2025 – Half Day. Merry Christmas!

January 6, 2026 – Complete Payroll Taxes Discussion.